WARS, revolutions, natural disasters. Veteran correspondents Adaora Udoji and Ron Allen have covered them all. So it’s not surprising that the couple’s 2,200-square-foot, three-bedroom, 2½-bathroom Upper West Side condo is decorated with trinkets and “souvenirs” from the world’s most troublesome hot spots.

Allen, an NBC correspondent, points to a curved metal cross.

“We went to Rwanda during the genocide and came in with the rebel army that was taking over the capitol, and we stayed in a couple of churches overnight. I found that in a rectory and took it because I had never seen a cross shaped like that . . . I thought it was very striking.”

He then points to a pair of sullen-faced masks from the Congo.

“I call them Kabila and Mobutu, because they were the dictators at the time,” he says. “We were there during the revolution, and Kabila booted Mobutu out.”

Yet, even with all the weapons, masks and war-related items hanging on the walls, the home exudes a relaxing aura. The peach-toned living room, which looks out onto Broadway, features a two-seater balcony with an expansive view that allows for anthropological exploration of a different sort.

“There’s good people-watching, because there’s a whole lot of jokers in this neighborhood,” says Udoji, who has reported for ABC and CNN and is now a co-host of WNYC’s morning radio show “The Takeaway.”

“We’re so close to Columbia [University],” she explains. “We have lovebirds at 2 in the morning; macho teenagers thumping their hip-hop; just this bizarre mix of every race, ethnicity and socioeconomic group you could ever find in New York City.”

The couple bought the newly constructed condo off a blueprint in 2004 and moved in December of that year. Impressed with its spaciousness (including a separate dining room and eat-in kitchen), they saw a home with lots of light and room to throw parties. Plus, it had enough room for a family. (They’re currently in the process of adopting.)

Decorating the apartment piecemeal as they must – Allen was on the campaign trail with Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney for seven months, while Udoji’s job has her up at 1:30 a.m. – they nevertheless have managed to create a cozy space for themselves and their two Norwich Terriers, Max and Lisdy.

Some items on display, like poison darts from the Philippines and machetes from Rwanda, reflect death and despair, but much of the décor, in fact, exhibits the beauty and artistry of regions we all too often associate with political unrest and violence.

Like the gorgeous, deep red Persian rug that anchors the living room, one of several rugs from Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. There’s also brightly colored Moroccan pottery, from a trip in which the couple brought two bags and returned with 15, in a case in the dining room.

Several items made of lapis, a blue stone from central Asia, recall one of Udoji’s more trying escapades in Pakistan. She had to negotiate for two months to buy a lapis vase because the Pakistani merchant didn’t like Americans.

Udoji points to what appears to be a metal spice holder in the same case, explaining that its use was for something far different.

“This is a gunpowder holder from Afghanistan,” she says. “This is what they would put the gunpowder in to make the bullets for the guns. You see the shape of it? The bullet could fit in there, and then you pack the individual bullets.”

While there are several elements of the apartment that are more commonplace – the green marble countertop and cherrywood cabinets in the kitchen, for example – on the whole, the home reflects an insight into a chaotic world that for these international reporters is not just global, but intensely personal.

“The place is basically our life,” says Allen. “It’s where we’ve been, it’s what we’ve done, and it’s all here.”